Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention

Bringing together a range of international academics and practitioners in the field, this book examines the role and practical dynamics of governmental environmental law enforcement agencies and individuals who are engaged in activities aimed to combat environmental crime. Key players include organisations such as CITES, the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, INTERPOL, UNICRI, US EPA, the World Customs Organization, and state-based environmental protection agencies. Responding to environmental crime involves a wide range of horizontal, vertical and diagonal collaborations, across many different domains and sectors. This collection provides detailed description and analysis of the how and why of collaborative state intervention at different levels.
 
Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention explores the strengths and limitations of each form of collaboration, and discusses the experiences and prospects of collaborative state intervention from an individual, organisational, institutional and collective point of view. It provides analyses that will inform academic researchers about the 'real world' practices and experiences of practitioners, and provides an intellectual space for practitioners to examine critically what it is they do, and why they do it in a certain way.

Grant Pink is an Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Law, University of New England, Australia, and is employed by the Department of Environment in Canberra, Australia. As a practitioner and academic, he has over 25 years' experience in the field of environmental regulation and enforcement.
 
Rob White is Professor of Criminology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has a particular interest in green criminology and has written extensively on eco-justice and environmental harm, transnational environmental crime, environment courts, and environmental law enforcement.

Foreword; Malcolm K. Sparrow

PART I: THE ROLE OF COLLABORATION IN COMBATING ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
1. Collaboration in Combating Environmental Crime - Making it Matter; Grant Pink and Rob White
2. International Compliance and Enforcement Networks: The Critical Role of Collaboration in Environmental Protection; Gunnar Baldwin, Jo Gerardu, Meredith Koparova and Henk Ruessink
3. Capacity Building and Collaboration: Enforcement Training to Build Capacity That Ensures Environmental Protection; Davis Jones and Ivan Honorato

PART II: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN COLLABORATION
4. Interagency Collaboration and Combating Wildlife Crime; Mariya Polner and Daniel Moell
5. Organisational Consortiums: The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC); John Scanlon and Lisa Farroway
6. Collaboration at the Front Line; INTERPOL and NGOs in the Same NEST; David Higgins and Rob White

PART III: THE OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF COLLABORATION
7. Collaboration and Consultancy: Tackling Environmental Crime and Delivering Environmental Protection; Campbell Gemmell, Simon Bingham and Nancy Isarin
8. Collaborative Relationships with the Courts: The Prosecutor's Perspective; Anne Brosnan and Paul Taylor
9. Port to Port Collaboration; Henk Ruessink, Bob Heiss, Deborah Kopsick and Meredith Koparova

PART IV: THE ROLE OF RESEARCH IN COLLABORATION
10. Coordinating Research Efforts on Environmental Crime; Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia, Juha Hintsa, Elise Vermeersch and Sangeeta Mohanty
11. Collaborative Research as Tool for Building Environmental Regulatory Capability; Matthew Marshall and Grant Pink
12. Researchers and Practitioners: Building Collaboration for Evidence-Based Policy-Making; Robyn Bartel and Samantha Bricknell